This blog will list news about all aspects of scorpion biology and important taxonomical updates from The scorpion Files. The Scorpion Files is a leading information source about scorpions, and has among others an updated list of all extant families, genera and species.(C) Jan Ove Rein and The Scorpion Files.

14 September, 2012

Euscorpius italicus Thorell, 1876 (Euscorpiidae) is known from several Europan countries, but introduced populations have also been reported from Algeria, Morocco,Yemen and Iraq. In addition, I've seen many reports of accidental findings of single E. italicus specimens from many northern European countries (stowaways).

Ersen Yagmur has now published a finding of a specimen of Euscorpius italicus in a house in Northern Cyprus. This is clearly an introduced specimen, but it is not clear if it represent an introduced population or if it is just a single introduced stowaway.

Abstract:The scorpion species Euscorpius italicus (Herbst,
1800) is recorded for first time from Cyprus. This represents a new
scorpion family, genus and species record for the country. Besides, this
is first insular record from Mediterranean Sea. The characteristic
morphological features, zoogeographical remarks and ecological notes on
the species are presented in this study.